Betraying pensioners and axing the triple lock would be electoral suicide for Liz Truss, warn campaigners.
Yet yesterday the desperate Prime Minister seemed ready to break her pledge to push for the lock – where pensions rise by the highest of the rate of inflation, earnings or by 2.5%, each April.
And today Ms Truss, with her mini-budget in tatters and rated the least popular leader in 20 year in a poll, faces a crucial PMQs and rebellion from her own MPs.
